Curious if anyone knows of any that survived. If so, where?

A few in Vero are tall enough that they might possibly have survived.  In Brevard and Vero, 1989 slaughtered royals.  

My neighbor has a 40 foot coco that is super healthy. Not sure how old it is, but it at least survived the last couple of bad years.

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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

I doubt it. It was like 17 degrees. I lived in Satellite at the time and remember my whole yard was frozen over.

17 degrees, holy snikes! What did that do to the nursery trade? I can imagine 17 degrees would have wiped out a ton of nursery stock in the region. 

Evergreens were popular that year!

Pray for global warming. May that never happen again!!!!

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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

There is a coconut palm planted behind the old condo at Ocean Blvd and A1A South Patrick Shores.  The palm looks constricted about 15 ft up the trunk from '89 but grew out of it probably because the condo is L shaped and protected it from Northwest exposer.  You can see it if you surf Seagull or Perkins.  Just look north towards the condo with the sea wall. Also Ricky Carroll had the first one in our neighborhood.  He constructed a tent over it in '89.  And it lived until 2010. 

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One cool evening I was sitting around a bonfire down in Baja listening to the Hawaiian son-in-law and grandson of our friend from San Diego. The father was playing guitar while his son strummed along on his uke. It has been 8 years and many Hawaiian songs later that I find myself a dedicated student to Ki ho 'alu or Hawaiian slack key guitar.

There is one I know of off Pinetree in Indian Harbour.  It is also constricted half way up the trunk from '89 but is planted on the south side of a two story house.  And then there's a few nice ones at Dragon Point and along the Banana River growing out over the water from underneath the grandfather oaks.  

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One cool evening I was sitting around a bonfire down in Baja listening to the Hawaiian son-in-law and grandson of our friend from San Diego. The father was playing guitar while his son strummed along on his uke. It has been 8 years and many Hawaiian songs later that I find myself a dedicated student to Ki ho 'alu or Hawaiian slack key guitar.

Yes I have one that made it and still producing coconuts.. I am downtown melb and bought it at the Rare Fruit Club sale about 15 years ago.. But all my other ones died (10) that I got from Home Depot or started myself

Not to split hairs, but you said you bought your coconut tree about 15 years ago.  The title of the topic is "Did any coconuts survive the 1989 freeze?"  Unless my math is off, you bought your tree 10 years after the freeze of 1989.

lol  yeah i can do math  just thought I would add a thought... since there was a freeze after that   but thanks for your thought

You are correct...I was going to mention the one at Sandpiper Condominium but you beat me to it!

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Surfing is my passion...obsesssion... addiction! Can't imagine life without it!

I've grown some from the one in IHB. Good genes. I was also fascinated by the one at Sandpiper. I recently "discovered" it while catching a lil session out there.

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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

This one on Via Veneto in Merritt Island I had been watching since 1985.
Surprisingly, this is a non-dwarf variety and right now is nice and tall.

Photo from 2011

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.4025424,-80.7092243,3a,75y,333.11h,99.63t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sQCrdauEEsbFrUmO9K_lU9A!2e0

28°24'12.3"N 80°42'41.0"W
or
28.403421, -80.711381

I thought the culprit was a yellow leaf disease:

http://articles.latimes.com/19...-60934_1_coconut-palm

Lethal yellowing slaughtered many, if not most of south Florida's coconut palms and also affected many other species.  Coconuts were largely replanted with resistant varieties, and I think the disease has not been so much of a problem in recent years.  On the other hand, my neighborhood has seen Washingtonias and Queens die of a fungal disease (there's a discussion somewhere below).