This street’s name was inspired either by a village in Scotland or, more likely, by English novelist Wilkie Collins’s bestseller Armadale, first serialized in 1864-1866 and still popular when Armadale Avenue was christened on the Occidental Park tract in 1910. (W.A. Roberts was in charge of the tract; co-owners included members of the Glassell family and Glendale boss Leslie C. Brand.) Armadale‘s devious femme fatale Lydia Gwilt ruffled many a Victorian reader’s feathers, but whoever christened this street probably just liked the book’s name.
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