No Hudson River Waterfront West Side Highway Story is complete without a Statue of Liberty image. My father was in the US Army, and when I was 12, we came back from living in Germany on a military ocean liner that sailed into the harbor, just like in the movies. It was summer and all the passengers were on deck as we navigated passed the Statue. On the lowest level, hundreds of GIs in uniform danced to Little Eva's "Locomotion" which was on the transitor radios they all had tuned to the Cousin Brucie show. Another time, if not another place; I wonder how many of those boys ended up in Vietnam.