Significantly less than 500 salads

[Less Than] 500 Delicious Salad Recipes from the Culinary Arts Institute, 1951, includes an interesting list of salad bowl combinations. My typical method is to open the fridge door and see what's lurking and needs to be used up, but if I actually checked this list before going to the grocery store, I might be inspired to something more than what comes prechopped in a bag.

Avocado, grapefruit, romaine
Avocado, orange, and watercress
Avocado, peeled white grapes, and chicory (seriously? I can't be bothered anymore to chop my lettuce but I'm going to stand around peeling a bowl of grapes?)
Avocado, tangerine, pecans and lettuce
Avocado, tart apple, and romaine
Chicory, escarole, and grapefruit
Chicory, shredded cabbage, lettuce
Escarole,chinese cabbage, watercress (Watercress has completely dropped out of fashion. It's hard to find here, which is a shame. Its short shelf life is probably the major factor; can't pick it before it's ripe, spray wax over it and ship it a thousand miles like everything else.)
Chinese cabbage, tomato, radish, olives
Endive, carrot sticks, grapefruit
Shredded carrot, chinese cabbage, and romaine
Orange, Bermuda onion, and romaine
Potato diced, celery, cucumber, green pepper, pimiento
Green peas, mint leaves, lettuce
Dandelion, escarole, pimiento, and onion (That's a rare appearance of dandelion as a green in something other than a survivalist/girl scout cook book.)
Lettuce, fresh spinach, watercress, radishes, carrot sticks
Cabbage, carrot sticks, diced apples, shredded green pepper

Things in this book that do not inspire me:
Tongue salad
Anything with canned peas
Pyramid salad (which consists of arranging celery and swiss cheese sticks in a teepee shape on your plate)
Jellied Salmon mold
Duck salad (which far from using duck, sticks a marshmallow on a peach half, with an almond stuck in it for a bill, sorry no pic included!)
Washington's Salad (which involves coating a banana with mayonnaise and rolling it in nuts to look like a log in which you place a small toy hatchet)
Tongue and cabbage salad
Black and white photos of salads, e.g.:

Here's one more recipe inspiration:
Peanut and Carrot Salad
2 cups grated carrot
1 cup ground peanuts
1 T grated onion
1/2 t salt
1/2 cup mayonnaise
lettuce or chicory
1 tomato cut into thin wedges
Combine carrots, peanuts, onion, salt, and mayonnaise. Mix lightly and serve on crisp lettuce, garnish with tomato wedges.

This would probably be surprisingly good. I tried my first african peanut soup about two months ago, and loved it, so peanuts are definitely worthy of a second look. I might have this salad for lunch, except I'm going to the World Food Festival, and eating beforehand is not on my agenda.