Convenient, those kind of buildings are confined to just that section of town. That should make this a clean sweeping up of the bad guys. With any luck, if this is where the phone center is, that ‘Suzy’ will have gone home before the inevitable raid comes.
“Well, I could be wrong Sam, but this appears to be stucco from March 17, 1938, which is the date they were finishing up the former Gimbel’s Department Store in Nomar. And, if I had to make a guess, I suspect it came from the left side of the old employee’s entrance.”
“That’s amazing, Tracy.”
“Thanks. It’s easier when you plant the evidence.”
1-DT: Yum! I just a piece of fudge that Tess put in my holster (wonder what’d she did with my gun?) Oh. And she’s using those evidence baggies I took home. Saving money and surprising me with treats! I really should try to see her one in a while…
2-SAM: You gonna share that? DT: Uh, look in the mirror, Chubbo – your double chins are developing double chins. SAM: So…no?
3-MEANWHILE…THE KILLER: I’ve found the perfect hideout up here on the 2nd floor behind windows no one can see through in the ONLY ART DECO BUILDING IN TOWN. OWWW! Well, it would be perfect if I didn’t have to keep digging these stucco chunks outta my shoe!
One place that was not gutted out for a coffee shop or some trendy restaurant. The developers have not gotten around to it. No real estate company has the Nomar shopping area as a property for sale.
Perhaps the pinch hitter is stalling to hit the Sunday strip, but the pace has slowed down a bit.
Otherwise, I don’t have an issue with the stucco. It might not be entirely realistic, but this is a kind of alternate universe and has a number of unrealistic elements.
Jessica Rabbit famously said, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.”
Analogously, Tracy isn’t that smart, he’s just written that way. Being able to identify the age and provenance of a piece of stucco is pretty specialized knowledge. Didn’t Sherlock Holmes once write a treatise on tobacco ash?
avenger09 about 1 year ago
Tracyville has only ONE place that has stucco?
That’s a little unbelievable.
22ph about 1 year ago
Tracy the investigator
firestrike1 about 1 year ago
Dicks still looks like he ate the canary in panel two…
avenger09 about 1 year ago
Half of NYC is made of stucco! LOL!
avenger09 about 1 year ago
Which is worse,
Sam’s bowtie or Tracy’s clip on tie?
Neil Wick about 1 year ago
Good morning™, all!
Proper evidence bags. That’s good to see. It looks like the Art Deco district at the south end of Miami Beach. I’m a fan of that style from the 1920s.
Brian Premium Member about 1 year ago
What’s all this wasted money and effort with gloves and bags and such? Just have Sam slip the evidence into his pocket like usual.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray about 1 year ago
Good morning™, singular stucco districts !
Convenient, those kind of buildings are confined to just that section of town. That should make this a clean sweeping up of the bad guys. With any luck, if this is where the phone center is, that ‘Suzy’ will have gone home before the inevitable raid comes.
LawrenceS about 1 year ago
“Well, I could be wrong Sam, but this appears to be stucco from March 17, 1938, which is the date they were finishing up the former Gimbel’s Department Store in Nomar. And, if I had to make a guess, I suspect it came from the left side of the old employee’s entrance.”
“That’s amazing, Tracy.”
“Thanks. It’s easier when you plant the evidence.”
Tradewinds309 about 1 year ago
As we see in the last panel, the stucco came from the home of those darn Cambell kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell’s_Kids
Mmm, mmm, good!
tsull2121 about 1 year ago
And tracy knows this…..how exactly?
Ignatz Premium Member about 1 year ago
I’m trying to figure out why anybody would think a random piece of stucco was evidence of anything.
crobinson019 about 1 year ago
The only place to buy groceries in that part of town…That’s right, Nomar is a food island.
orbenjawell Premium Member about 1 year ago
….some Art Deco-type place! But of COURSE! D.T. say: "Elementary, Sammy-Me-Boy, ELEMENTARY!!
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 1 year ago
Well, this ought to be fun….
Another Take about 1 year ago
1-DT: Yum! I just a piece of fudge that Tess put in my holster (wonder what’d she did with my gun?) Oh. And she’s using those evidence baggies I took home. Saving money and surprising me with treats! I really should try to see her one in a while…
2-SAM: You gonna share that? DT: Uh, look in the mirror, Chubbo – your double chins are developing double chins. SAM: So…no?
3-MEANWHILE… THE KILLER: I’ve found the perfect hideout up here on the 2nd floor behind windows no one can see through in the ONLY ART DECO BUILDING IN TOWN. OWWW! Well, it would be perfect if I didn’t have to keep digging these stucco chunks outta my shoe!
Null Island about 1 year ago
Good thing the criminal carries around evidence and just leaves it around.
IvanB.Cohen about 1 year ago
One place that was not gutted out for a coffee shop or some trendy restaurant. The developers have not gotten around to it. No real estate company has the Nomar shopping area as a property for sale.
Don Bagert Premium Member about 1 year ago
Nomar? No-mar? No-more? Namor? LOL
Don Bagert Premium Member about 1 year ago
Okay, now can Team Tracy tomorrow extend to six weeks their streak of actually advancing the plot on the Sunday strip? LOL
jim_pem about 1 year ago
Perhaps the pinch hitter is stalling to hit the Sunday strip, but the pace has slowed down a bit.
Otherwise, I don’t have an issue with the stucco. It might not be entirely realistic, but this is a kind of alternate universe and has a number of unrealistic elements.
Let’s just follow the lead already.
Sisyphos about 1 year ago
Wow! Who ever knew Tracyville was such a smallish city with such a distinctive stucco-trimmed district?!
Its old, abandoned (?) Campbell building, in a district still with overhead electrical wires, must be nonetheless pretty well known to locals.
But, even so, how is the broken bit of stucco trim going to lead to a killer? Can it even lead to a boiler-room phone scam center?
neilbrassfrog about 1 year ago
Given how long Tracy and Tess have been together, I bet Tracy is an expert in very old trim.
Sporteric11 about 1 year ago
With all the stucco I saw used when I lived in Los Angeles, I wonder if this part of Tracyville is in an earthquake zone .
cherns Premium Member about 1 year ago
Jessica Rabbit famously said, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.”
Analogously, Tracy isn’t that smart, he’s just written that way. Being able to identify the age and provenance of a piece of stucco is pretty specialized knowledge. Didn’t Sherlock Holmes once write a treatise on tobacco ash?
198.23.5.11 about 1 year ago
Looks like a derelict Greyhound Bus terminal