I wrote this obituary for a radio publication:
Dusty Street died October 21. She was 77. Her father was Emerson Street. As a child, she and her family lived on Emerson Street in Palo Alto. "It drove the postman out of his mind," she told The Marin Times. Street began in radio in 1967 at San Francisco progressive rock station KMPX and moved to crosstown KSAN in December 1969. Following a brief stint at KTIM in San Rafael, she hosted evenings at alternative rock KROQ from 1979 to 1980. She briefly worked at KWST and KLOS and returned to KROQ in 1981. She moved to KMET in 1986 and left on February 6, 1987, prior to the station's switch from progressive rock to new age as "94.7 The Wave" KTWV. Street returned to KROQ in March 1987 for afternoons but was fired in October 1989. She told the Los Angeles Times, "I had too strong a personality. DJs no longer have any voice. They might as well hire people with no ears. By the end of the year, I seriously doubt KROQ will be the station it used to be." She was correct. KROQ added songs by Tom Petty, Metallica, Soundgarden, Guns N’ Roses, Faith No More, the Rolling Stones and other rock artists and the ratings went down.
Street worked at classic rock KLSX from 1990 to 1994, then spent a year in middays at KEDG in Las Vegas and a year in weekends at KXPT in Las Vegas. Since 2003, she had hosted programs on XM Satellite Radio's (now SiriusXM) Classic Vinyl and Deep Tracks channels, broadcasting from a fifth-floor studio at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland. Street was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Museum Hall of Fame in 2015.
