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Dusty Street

Dustine "Dusty" Frances Street was an American disc jockey. As one of the first women to work on-air in FM radio on the West Coast, she was associated with station KROQ in Los Angeles in the 1980s, and was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2015.

Early life and education
Street was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Emerson Street, a journalist and labor organizer, and Mildred Ruth Sutherland Street, a journalist. ==Career==
Career
Street began her radio career in San Francisco, where she worked with Tom Donahue at KMPX in the late 1960s and at KSAN from 1969 to 1979. She worked at KROQ in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1989, with a year away at other stations in the city. and with introducing several major artists and genres to American commercial radio, including Billy Idol and Siouxsie and the Banshees. "Nobody in the country was playing what we were playing when we started," she recalled, in an oral history interview about her time at KROQ, conducted by Liz Ohanesian in 2007. from her home in Cleveland. She and her longtime colleague Raechel Donahue and part of NPR's Airplay documentary project in 2011. She also had a podcast, the Fly Low Show. In 2023, she appeared in the documentary San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time. She was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2015. ==Personal life==
Personal life
Street died in 2023, at the age of 77, in Eugene, Oregon. ==References==
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