Swissvale
Borough in PennsylvaniaWikipedia
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Search complete. 12 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Swissvale".
Sep 8, 2026
Jim CunninghamHOST
Really, you go out the parkway through the tunnel from the East End, I'm saying, and just look for the Carnegie exit.
Heidi MatthewsGUEST
Well, I commute from Swissvale every day.
Heidi MatthewsGUEST
So it's, you know, been doing that for five years and, you know, enjoy listening to WQED on my way back and forth.
Jim CunninghamHOST
Excellent.
Francesca DiBeccoPANELIST
This neighborhood, it intersects where different communities meet.
Francesca DiBeccoPANELIST
So Wilkinsburg, Edgewood and Swissville all come together in the Regent Square area.
Mallory FalkHOST
You know, until we were prepping for this episode, I actually had no idea that the Mexican War Streets was not considered an official neighborhood.
Mallory FalkHOST
This is like I didn't realize that there were these places that are just like really commonly known aren't on the official official list.
Mr BallenHOST
Also, that stray kitten survived the attack as well.
Mr BallenHOST
At 2.45 p.m. on January 6, 1995, a 45-year-old man named MacArthur Wheeler walked towards the front doors of a bank in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, which is a small town near Pittsburgh.
Mr BallenHOST
MacArthur had on a mask and was dressed in a big blue parka, and in one of his pockets, he was carrying a semi-automatic handgun.
Mr BallenHOST
MacArthur was about to rob this bank at gunpoint, but weirdly, he did not feel nervous, despite the fact that, you know, MacArthur had never robbed a bank before.
Mr BallenHOST
Also, that stray kitten survived the attack as well.
Mr BallenHOST
At 2.45 p.m. on January 6th, 1995, a 45-year-old man named MacArthur Wheeler walked towards the front doors of a bank in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, which is a small town near Pittsburgh.
Mr BallenHOST
MacArthur had on a mask and was dressed in a big blue parka, and in one of his pockets, he was carrying a semi-automatic handgun.
Mr BallenHOST
MacArthur was about to rob this bank at gunpoint.
Jim NantzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Time to announce this week's Toyota Leadership Award winners, the team players who have been singled out by their schools.
Jim NantzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Today's game team leadership winners, Brian Chizmar from Penn State, Brian a marketing major from Swissvale, Pennsylvania, and Frank Jacobs from Notre Dame, Frank an American studies major from Highland Heights, Kentucky.
Jim NantzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Toyota donates a check in the amount of $1,000 to each school's general scholarship fund.
Jim NantzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Frank Jacobs out with an ankle, out with a broken ankle against Air Force, but remembered here today.
Melissa BlackHOST
The play is called Ruth is Dead.
Melissa BlackHOST
It's written by Donny Buckingham from Swissvale.
Melissa BlackHOST
Uh, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival is an annual event that fosters the development of original one-act plays produced by local theater companies.
Melissa BlackHOST
Colleen, thank you so much for joining me.
Melissa BlackHOST
It's a chilling title.
Colleen HammondGUEST
It is.
Colleen HammondGUEST
The play is called Ruth is Dead, as you said, by my lovely neighbor in Swissvale, Donny Buckingham.
Colleen HammondGUEST
Um, and it's a story that I think is really timely and really topical for us.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And this is Thomas Lowney of Emworth and to W.C. Schroeder of Greensburg, 84 years young today.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
50th wedding anniversary greetings from Nellie Mina to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cushing of Swissvale.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The 0-2 to Madlock.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Inside, he's kept rope.
Alan CoxHOST
They didn't put him in murder dirter.
Alan CoxHOST
He from Swiss Vale, PA, out there in the Mon Valley.
Alan CoxHOST
Why didn't they put him in there? Murder dirter.
Alan CoxHOST
That's five or six years ago when Mare of Easttown was real big.
41 MINS LATER
Alan CoxHOST
Just one show tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday.
Alan CoxHOST
So you miss him at your own peril.
Alan CoxHOST
The pride of Swiss Vale, Pennsylvania.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yes, sir.