The St. Petersburg Pier was home to many businesses - as well as iconic memorabilia - over the years.

As crews begin the process of demolishing the inverted pyramid, you may be wondering: where did all those things end up?

Anyone who visited the inverted pyramid had to walk past the Dolphin Cruises tiki hut by the entrance. The tiki hut stood outside the Pier for more than a decade.

That tiki hut is still being put to good use in Pinellas County. Through the quaint entry at the Bay Waters Inn in St. Pete Beach, guests will find an iconic piece of the Pier in the courtyard: the Dolphin Cruises tiki hut, complete with original signage.

"It's just kind of cool that we've got it here on our courtyard," said the hotel's owner John Michael. "It's ours."

Michael says they won the tiki hut at a Pier auction for $375, and that they are very proud to have it.

"That pier means a lot of things to a lot of people for a lot of years and that's going to sit here for a lot longer, and it's just nice," he said. "We're proud to have it."

Almost everything inside the Pier was auctioned off two years ago. Many of the kitchen items are being used in Bay area restaurants today.

Most of what's left is being demolished and hauled away by contractor Sonny Glasbrenner Inc. The trucks go from the Pier to a material recovery center located 12 miles north.

"Other than drywall, the vast majority of it will be recycled and reused," said Pate Clements, the president of Sonny Glasbrenner Inc.

For example, the bricks and curbs are crushed into road base. The Pier's concrete will be cut up and moved to improve the Albert Whitted Airport shoreline.

The bait shop will be moved for an outdoor nautical garden at the St. Petersburg Museum of History. Inside the museum is also a 200-pound cleat from the Pier. You can expect to see more of them around downtown St. Petersburg.

"We’re talking about utilizing those in some means with regard to the waterfront history and possibly along the waterfront in the future," said Kristin Brett, who is the communications manager for the Pier.

Sonny Glasbrenner Inc. got a $3.2 million contract to demolish the Pier. Clements said they're starting with the one-story retail section first. They'll begin tearing down the big inverted pyramid structure in two weeks.