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This year, in honor of International Women's Day, Budweiser revisited three of their adverts from the '50s and '60s that they are not exactly proud of. The outdated ads portrayed objectified women in a subservient role to their husbands. But media and advertising was only a reflection of the world we lived in.

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The lessons Sam Walton learned during those early, successful years of Wal-Mart allowed him to build the most successful retail chain in history. And just like the times that he

Christmas gun ads are sadly lacking these days, but luckily we found seven vintage trips down advertising's memory lane to help you reminisce.

We've rounded up some of the silliest, weirdest, most absurd vintage period ads. They won't make you want to buy tampons, but they will give you a laugh.

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Don't let the floral name fool you: these guns are totally bad-ass. While not as cool as a real weapon, you can still do some serious damage. That's why you have to remember that even Daisy Pump Guns aren't toys and should probably not be advertised to children in the back of comic books. Wait.

Here are a whole bunch of brilliant automotive ads over the last 50 or 60 years. It shows that the art of copywriting in advertising isn't what it used to be,