Maybe the water is getting in from behind the front bricks and in front of the inside bricks.If the walls are a sideways brick thick, they may be a double brick wall back to back with tie bricks holding them together (old fashioned way of building) vs modern veneer.Sometimes during construction the first floor is made with even wider walls to accommodate future upper stories.The layers of bricks will not have mortar between them (most likely, but who knows).So if you have water intrusion up higher, it may come down there and leak out behind the stucco and when it freezes bingo stucco pops off.The intrusion could follow an old window casing down and leak in a hidden spot under the sill and flow down, or on an angle.If you are using a good stucco contractor and he is baffled, this might be it....or it might not be it....Maybe affixing metal lath to the area might help--but if it is a water issue,,,that water will have to go somewhere, and if its bundled between the bricks when it freezes...the bricks might pop.Maybe shield the areas really well with plastic duck taped up there, and if the brick is wet or the taped cover holds water when you open it after a storm...you may have figured it out.

Mine is the cheap plastic hangers.

When pricing replacements for these, I discovered that the average price for these two pieces of cheap plastic is about $120.  

how much should it cost to rip out a steel tub, plastic wall surround, and replace it with those plastic, 3/4 piece, acrylic tub and surround I see at Home Depot for about $300?

If you do take it down yourself, make sure the place is well ventilated (open windows), the ceiling is sprayed to minimize dust, you wear a respirator/mask and safety glasses and you block off the rooms that don't have the popcorn ceiling with plastic.

It also costs more for the deleading if there is furniture and belongings there as we have to move everything into the center of the room and seal it in plastic before we begin work, adding labor and extra material costs to the job.That being said, I can check the address for you to see if its ever been inspected for lead.

I have plastic opaque blue business cards.

But hey if you have a coin laundry, whats few feet more plastic pipe.

In the meantime I am getting a wild range of insane quotes (like 10% of the price of the house) for what it looks like partially replacing old pipes with plastic PVC ones, and then deal with remodeling and re flooring These guys must make more money than The Wolf Of Wall Street!

I’m sitting on the couch recovering from knee surgery.