Casino resorts in Nevada location, once packed, become ghost town as closure nears

A Nevada location once thrived with multiple casinos, hotels, restaurants and plenty of outlet shopping.

Today, the town of Primm will have its last casino hotel close on July 4 — putting 344 people out of work, according to Fox 5 Las Vegas as well as other outlets.

"In Nevada, we have a lot of old mining towns where, when the boom ended, or they had used up whatever precious metal they were looking for, everybody cleared out," Michael Green, associate professor of history at the University of Nevada...