Van Zant and his men, tipped by Waingro, invade Trejo's house (an unusual house
on stilts), hanging off the side of a hilltop. They torture Trejo's wife until he finally
tells them about De Niro's upcoming bank robbery. One of Van Zant's men,
a police informant, tips off the police about the robbery. Later, De Niro
finds Trejo dying in the house, and puts him out of his misery.

This unique house-on-stilts can be found at 1219 Dodds Circle,
in in the Boyle Heights/City Terrace area of East L.A. *

Here is a Google StreetView of the house.

01:38:10: The big bank robbery begins. The robbery scenes were shot inside a real bank,
the Far East Bank, at 350 S. Grand Ave. (at the corner of 5th Street & Grand),
in downtown Los Angeles.
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01:45:47: However, once De Niro's crew head out of the bank, we don't see the real
front of the Far East bank. Instead, they filmed the exit outside the 444 Building, at
444 S. Flower St. (at 5th & Flower) in downtown, which is to the west of Grand Ave.

01:46:14: Note the large geometrical shapes they walk past (in the photo below);
this is a work of art is titled “North, East, South, West”, and it is located just outside
the doors of the 48-story office building at 444 S. Flower . The same shapes were
also seen in "Fight Club". (The fact that you can read "444" above the door,
when Tom Sizemore walks out, is another good hint....)

01:47:00: When Al Pacino gets word that the bank robbery is underway, he heads there
and catches up with the robbers as they are about to make their getaway.
A savage shoot-out ensues in the streets of downtown L.A.
Most of the filming took place on 5th Street, Flower Street and Figueroa Street.

In the photo below, we are looking back east/northeast as one of the getaway cars heads
west on W. 5th Street, as it passes S. Flower Street and heads under a pedestrian
bridge that spans 5th St. between the Bonaventure Hotel & the Paul Hastings tower
The cluster of palm trees you see behind the car is on the
northeast corner of 5th Street & flower..

In the photo below, we (and Val Kilmer) are looking west down 5th Street.
The police have positioned their cars across 5th street to block the onramps
to the Harbor (110) Freeway., which lies just beyond that next pedestrian bridge.
Kilmer opens up on them, blasting the cop cars with a hail of automatic weapons fire.

01:50:55: In the photo below, we are looking northwest across Figueroa Street, as
De Niro runs to rescue the wounded Val Kilmer. The escalators visible in the background
are part of the Union Bank Plaza, at the northwest corner of Figueroa and 5th Street.

* Locations marked with an asterisk may be located in high-crime areas. Exercise reasonable caution.

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