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A dad who spent 37 YEARS trying to track down a tin tacker from when his wife was a beer model in the 80s was given a hilarious surprise when his family managed to buy one for him. Bryan and Nadia Corlett, from Newport Beach, California, started dating in their early 20s, at which time Nadia was working as an actress and a model. She worked on a campaign for Miller Lite in 1986, and the couple later discovered the tin tacker sign hanging in their local bar. Bryan asked the owner if he could purchase it, but, according to the family, the owner refused, and when he returned at a later date, the poster was gone – setting off a decadeslong search. He always looked out in different bars with no luck, and then, with the widespread implementation of the Internet, his search turned digital – still to no avail. But in 2025, with the story having become legend, Bryan's family decided to take a fresh look themselves.
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00:00He searched 37 years for this brutiful piece of memorabilia.
00:04How did you get this?
00:07In 1986, Brian's wife, Nadia, starred in a campaign for Miller Lite.
00:11While grabbing a drink at their local bar in California,
00:14they spotted the Tintacker hanging on the wall.
00:17Brian tried to buy it on the spot, but the owner refused,
00:20sparking a decades-long search.
00:22By 2025, the story was family legend.
00:26So his kids took one last shot,
00:28searching for the only added detail Nadia remembered,
00:31the yellow dress she wore.
00:34And to their surprise...
00:36Oh my god, I know what you're saying.
00:38Oh my god.
00:39They found it.
00:41Oh my god.
00:44How did you get that, Nadia?
00:45What?
00:47How amazing.
00:48How did you get it?
00:50What I'm going to do.
00:51It's...
00:53This is way...
00:55How did you get this?
00:57I found it on eBay.
00:59Can you get it on eBay?
01:00No way.
01:01That's a compliment on eBay?
01:03I think so.
01:03That's crazy.
01:04This is incredible.
01:06Where are we going to put it?
01:07Come here.
01:08What's this?
01:08In the middle of the hall.
01:09I feel like...
01:11This is it.
01:12The family told us their dad was so proud of their mom
01:15and genuinely excited to finally get his hands
01:17on this special piece of family history.
01:19That felt too late.
01:20That felt like someone tobits and fear.
01:21Then I just grabbed him thinking.
01:25That make me want them to live.
01:26And to me like, read the-
01:27But how do you get me out and get things out of their aunt?
01:29This is even pretty late.
01:30The family told us that they would probably never walk up...
01:33Were there anytime afraid that they can come if you'd fall in.
01:34It was okay?
01:35I think it made me 18 times that they had someone
01:36because they lived there yesterday.
01:37I wanted to buy something different from them.
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