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The LAY-trobe phenomenon is real and something that outsiders have picked up on in my speaking (as a fellow Latrobean) after I moved away. My theory is that Latrobe as an adjective is "LAY-trobe" and the noun pronunciation is "lah-TROBE"; not really sure if that holds up to scrutiny though.

When I worked in Pittsburgh and Johnstown, I had coworkers from the Latrobe area, and since I'm from east of the Alleghenies (where lah-TROBE tends to be popular) it always took some conscious effort on my part to say LAY-trobe, which I understood to be correct :-)

And stay away from courtrooms where some lawyers pronounce "voir dire" (that jury selection thing) as "voar dyer" instead of "vwah deer". And far too many people pronounce "et cetera" as "eck cetera".

A bit further East on 80, Bellefonte (BELL font) is another good one.