Flashback: Aven Theatre opens in 1950, to become the Raven

From The Flashbackers at The Healdsburg Tribune

The new Aven theatre on North Street is nearing completion. Designed by Gale Santocono of San Francisco, the stucco and concrete block building is 73 by 130 feet, with a seating capacity of 738. An 18 by 24-foot Walker Plastic Molded sound-screen, the only one in northern California, and a Simplex sound system with Altec Lansing “Voice of the Theatre’’ will give the new movie house the finest of modern sound and picture reproduction.