{"id":152747,"date":"2026-03-30T22:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152747\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:51:07","slug":"pittsburgh-automotive-king-dies-pittsburgh-pa-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152747\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Automotive King Dies | Pittsburgh, PA Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH, PA \u2014 The man behind the familiar &#8220;Power of Boswer&#8221; commercials and the person responsible for one of Western Pennsylvania&#8217;s largest auto dealerships has died.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Bowser, 81, of Murrysville, Westmoreland County, died on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> He was 81.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser acquired Al Schwartz Pontiac Subaru in 1983 and grew the company from a modest 30-employee enterprise to a dealership with more than 450 workers. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartfuneralhomeinc.com\/obituary\/Gary-Bowser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">See his entire obituary here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH, PA \u2014 The man behind the familiar &#8220;Power of Boswer&#8221; commercials and the person responsible for one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-152747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}